Pardoned: Prayers & Promises for Prisoners

by J.M. Robertson

Prayers and Promises for Prisoners sensitively addresses the emotions and needs of so many who are incarcerated. The author, John M. Robertson, has a gift for using the written word to meet special needs. Choosing scripture promises which touch the hurts and fears of individuals, Robertson then creates expressive prayers in poetic form, thereby allowing words to reflect feelings. Those in prison ministries find this book an inspiration in their work as they attempt to identify with those behind bars. Never having a personal prison experience himself, many have remarked on the author's keen insight into the hearts of those who cry out from behind prison bars. A marvelous tool for those in a difficult ministry.

Paperback

Published December 1, 1983

About the author

John Mackinnon Robertson was a prolific journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918.

In 1856, John Mackinnon (J.M.) Robertson was born on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. He left school at 13, joined the staff of the Edinburgh Evening News in 1878, and several years later moved to London to work on the National Reformer, Charles Bradlaugh's publication, which he edited until 1893. That year Robertson founded the Free Review, which he published for two years. He lectured in the United States in 1897- 1898. In 1900, Robertson traveled to South Africa to report on martial law for the Morning Leader. From 1906 to 1918 he served in Parliament. Robertson specialized in comparative mythology, and believed Jesus never existed. He wrote Christianity and Mythology (1900) and Pagan Christs (1903), still influential works. Other books include Short History of Christianity (1902) and Short History of Freethought (2 volumes, 1915). His expertise extended to economics, linguistics and politics. "No man has rendered higher service to British Rationalism in the last four decades, and few, especially among self-educated men, have attained such reputable command of so many branches of culture," wrote freethought historian Joseph McCabe in 1920. D. 1933.

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